Past Events
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 12:30pm - 2:30pm

Join us December 7th us for a round-robin poetry reading in the beautiful Green Cay Wetlands Nature Preserve. We will spend a lovely afternoon reading poetry informally around the circle in the Green Cay Club House Community Room. Please bring up to four poems (favorites, or your own) to share with the group. *Please bring a light wrap or jacket as the room may be cold. **Please be prompt as we will start to read at 12:30. Read more >

Saturday, December 3rd, 2016 12:30pm - 2:30pm

We have all read and studied poems of great sorrow, deep love, and intellectual probing. But what about delight? How might a poem be served by writing from a place of delight, and what might we learn from the many poets who have reached for delight? In this workshop, we’ll look at how poets have translated delight into their work, how they have delighted in building a poem, and how they have employed craft elements to convey delight. After discussing various models, ranging from Issa to O’Hara, trying to suss out the “poetics of delight,” we will write and share our … Read more >

Saturday, November 5th, 2016 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Perhaps you’ve heard that poetry is what is lost in translation, and certainly any good translator will tell you it is virtually impossible to capture everything of an original poem in a translation. However, there is also much to be gained in translation–translators have been enriching the English language for hundreds of years. As a poet, your own language can be enriched by experimenting with translation. Participants in this workshop will create their own versions of poems originally written in German, Chinese, and Japanese–with no foreign language experience required!   Becka Mara McKay directs the Creative Writing MFA at Florida … Read more >

Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 12:30pm - 2:30pm

EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO IMPENDING STORM. SEE OUR DECEMBER 7 EVENT. Join us October 5th us for a round-robin poetry reading in the beautiful Green Cay Wetlands Nature Preserve. We will spend a lovely afternoon reading poetry informally around the circle in the Green Cay Club House Community Room. Please bring up to four poems (favorites, or your own) to share with the group. *Please bring a light wrap or jacket as the room may be cold. **Please be prompt as we will start to read at 12:30. Read more >

Saturday, October 1st, 2016 - Friday, December 2nd, 2016

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival invites all Palm Beach County high school students to send in one original poem. The winner will receive $200 and a pair of tickets to the Sizzling Spoken Word Performance Event featuring The Mayhem Poets: Mason Granger & Scott Raven. The four runners up will each receive $100 and a pair of tickets to Sizzling Spoken Word Performance Event. All winners receive a one-year subscription to Poets and Writers Literary Journal All of the prize-winning poems will be posted on the festival website: palmbeachpoetryfestival.org and will be included in press releases Prize winners will be invited … Read more >

Saturday, September 24th, 2016 3:30pm - 5:30pm

Join us to participate in the largest poetry reading in history! Saturday, September 24th, The Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be hosting our fifth annual open-mic in partnership with 100 Thousand Poets for Change. This is a global happening taking place at the same time in over 800 venues in 115 countries! Poets will read and perform work simultaneously across the planet to promote social, political, environmental sustainability, and change, simultaneously across the planet. You are welcome to read your own work or your favorite poems by other poets. Between poetry readings, special guest musicians will play songs for peace. Attendees are welcome … Read more >

Wednesday, June 8th, 2016 12:30pm - 2:30pm

Join us June 8th us for a round-robin poetry reading in the beautiful Green Cay Wetlands Nature Preserve. We will spend a lovely afternoon reading poetry informally around the circle in the Green Cay Club House Community Room. Please bring up to four poems (favorites, or your own) to share with the group. *Please bring a light wrap or jacket as the room may be cold. **Please be prompt as we will start to read at 12:30. Read more >

Wednesday, June 1st, 2016 10:30am - 12:30pm

Save Wednesday, June 1st and join us as we share the love of poetry at our annual summertime poetry reading at Sunrise Assisted Living Facility. The festival’s poetry troupe will take to the mic to read poems of summer, heat, and blossoms. Our volunteers are also known to sing romantic songs of yesteryear. Please bring 5 (single page) poems, your own or your favorites. Feel free to sing some golden oldie love songs related to the theme of summer, as this group really responds to the lyrics and poetry of music! Sunrise always has a large audience to welcome us. I hope you will join … Read more >

Saturday, May 28th, 2016 - Tuesday, January 10th, 2017

For those coming in from out of town, please note that January is the height of the vacation season in Delray Beach. We suggest you reserve a hotel room as soon as possible. See our Travel & Lodging page for more information to plan your visit. Read more >

Saturday, May 7th, 2016 12:30pm - 2:30am

We often find ourselves stuck, staring at the page waiting for words to arrive. Sometimes they hide in a black hole inside our heads and refuse to come. But we can coax them out with a simple poetic device. In this workshop, imagining the Poem, learn to lure the muse  and stretch your imagination. Lenny DellaRocca has had more than 200 poems appear in more than 150 lit mags since 1980, including: Fairy Tale Review, Seattle Review, Poet Lore, Poem, Sun Dog and The Laurel Review. Chiron Review nominated him for a Pushcart Prize. He has new poems forthcoming in 2River View, Chiron Review … Read more >